Woman impersonated lawmakers wife, snuck into GOP retreat

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Associated Press via Washington Post

Woman impersonated lawmakers wife, snuck into GOP retreat

By Erica Werner??AP January 28 at 10:43 PM

WASHINGTON A woman impersonated the wife of a GOP lawmaker and snuck into the congressional Republican retreat in Philadelphia Thursday, the same day President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appeared, retreat organizers told lawmakers late Saturday.

The revelation came as the nonprofit Congressional Institute that organizes the retreat investigates how audio of the gathering leaked. In an email to GOP lawmakers, institute president Mark Strand did not directly say that the impersonator was the same person who leaked the audio, but that was the implication.

The Congressional Institute is continuing to investigate this breach in order to fully understand how it happened and to ensure it does not happen again, said Strands email, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

The audio was leaked to several news outlets and first reported by The Washington Post. It reveals lawmakers airing concerns about the practical difficulties and political risks of repealing and replacing President Barack Obamas health care law, among other things. There is also audio of a question-and-answer session with Pence, indicating that the intruder was in the same room as the vice president, which raises security concerns. It was not immediately clear if she was also present for the session with Trump, who spoke before Pence but did not engage in a private discussion with lawmakers.
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Good morning. I'm certain my RW aunt will call the Post this morning and point out that "snuck" is not correct English.

[putitinD]

1. Maybe the russians leaked the audio.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Maybe Steve Bannon hit "reply all." NT

[AngryAmish]

3. They should have built a wall.

[SticksnStones]

4. ..

Because misrepresenting who you are in order to film or record the activities of your political opponents is wrong. (cough, james o'keefe)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Chaffetz will subpoena her to appear before his committee.

Will he remember to use his official email to do this, or will he forget and use his personal email account instead?

[DLevine]

8. Lock him up! nt

[2naSalit]

30. Has this person been IDed yet?

Maybe it wasn't actually a woman...

And if the audio was given with confidentiality, they might never find out who the informant was.

We need to run these bastards out of our house before it's too late.

[appleannie1943]

6. Republicans are better at security and keeping things safe.

[watoos]

7. Didn't Republicans (regressives) say

when Russia hacked the DNC and Podesta that it doesn't matter who did the hacking as long as the information was true? The little snowflakes get upset when someone hacks them.

ps/ I blog on a right wing web site and have found out that calling them regressives upsets them so I do it all the time now.

[lastlib]

14. Regressive toward the mean.

As a statistics guy, I had to append that. It should a new meme about the GOPee.

[LuvNewcastle]

15. That IS what they say.

This is going to be good, I have a feeling. Time for some balance.

[Fast Walker 52]

16. yes, great point-- we're in a post-secret, post-rules world

so anything goes, and hey, who cares if it's true? As long as it helps win an election.

[ck4829]

9. Oh no, how awful, I hope someone doesn't do it again and again

[Fast Walker 52]

17. haha, that would be awful

(great idea!)

[cstanleytech]

36. What would be really awful is if some evidence was uncovered proving the GOP was engaged in

committing massive voter fraud across the nation during the last election lol
Then again that could be why they are suddenly chiming in as being opposed to the voter fraud investigation Trump wants and if thats the case and they didnt tell him then that could be why they are panicked over such an investigation.
Would be funny as hell to if that was the case and if one of their own brought their house of cards tumbling down.

[Fast Walker 52]

38. yep, but we already know they were engaged in race-driven voter suppression

doesn't get more evil than that, and I'm sure they pull other tricks

[truthisfreedom]

10. heh.

I'm lovin' this new American spy vs spy stuff. We'll always win. The Americans I mean. Because the soviet republicans are the enemy. Because they're russian.

[safeinOhio]

11. First Lady says

It were Moose and Squirrel.

[mgardener]

12. Perhaps

She was a Republican with a conscience?

[jaxind]

13. Audio

Why aren't we hearing the audio? With Romney's 47%, we heard and saw the video. I'm not asking because I don't believe it...I just want to hear it!!

[BumRushDaShow]

25. The event was just held last Thursday

I expect whatever outlets have it are carefully reviewing it for other info and probably tossed out some tidbits as a teaser. Probably quite a bit was recorded from the sessions, but I expect some of it was probably procedural. It will be interesting to see if they were able to get any handouts or other presentation materials.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. "snuck" is fine. It runs counter to the usual American regularization of verbs

For example, the verb "to dive" had a past tense "dove" but now that is almost always "dived".

drove --> drived
sought --> seeked
slew --> slayed
froze --> freezed

But "snuck" is counter-trend:

http://blog.dictionary.com/snuck-or-sneaked/

Like leaked as the past tense of leak, sneaked was the original past tense and past participle for sneak, which means “to move in a stealthy or furtive manner.” Used as early as the late 1800s, snuck has become the standard variant past tense and past participle of the verb sneak.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/10/harvard-scientists-predict-the-future-of-the-past-tense/

Just as genes and organisms undergo natural selection, words — specifically, irregular verbs that do not take an “-ed” ending in the past tense — are subject to powerful pressure to “regularize” as the language develops. {...}

Lieberman, Michel, and colleagues built upon previous study of seven competing rules for verb conjugation in Old English, six of which have gradually faded from use over time. They found that the one surviving rule, which adds an “-ed” suffix to simple past and past participle forms, contributes to the evolutionary decay of irregular English verbs according to a specific mathematical function: It regularizes them at a rate that is inversely proportional to the square root of their usage frequency.

In other words, a verb used 100 times less frequently will evolve 10 times as fast.

https://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/the-evolution-of-the-past-tense-%E2%80%93-how-verbs-change-over-time/

In the Old English of Beowulf, seven different rules competed for governance of English verbs, and only about 75% followed the “-ed” rule. As the centuries ticked by, the irregular verbs became fewer and far between. With new additions to the lexicon taking on the standard regular form (‘googled’ and ‘emailed’), the irregulars face massive pressure to regularise and conform.

Today, less than 3% of verbs are irregular but they wield a disproportionate power. The ten most commonly used English verbs – be, have, do, go say, can, will, see, take and get – are all irregular. Lieberman found that this is because irregular verbs are weeded out much more slowly if they are commonly used.

[joshdawg]

21. Used to watch baseball games when

Dizzy Dean was broadcasting. When a runner slid into base, he would call it sluude. "He sluude into third base."
Then he would break into Wabash Cannonball.
Yeah, I'm kinda showing my age here

[2naSalit]

31. One that I find annoying..

Plead > pleaded

Along with

The Tomb of the Unkown > The Tomb of the Unkowns.


But I do agree with your explanation on the regularization of irregular verbs. Well stated.

[japple]

19. Snuck? I would have said "used an alternative method of entry."

Right, Kellyanne?

[geek tragedy]

20. How does it feel, guys? nt

[jpak]

22. Oh that sneaky little snucker!!!11

[mountain grammy]

23. Good for her..

I'm so white bread and matronly looking, I think I could pass for Republican.. I'm going underground first chance I get.Let's expose these fuckers.

[llmart]

28. I was thinking along the same lines...

To look at me you'd think I was mainstream, but people who actually know me, know i'm the kind of person who, if given a chance would use that to gain information. Hell, as someone else on another thread said, I'd take in refugees to spite the orange asshole.

The way I feel is I'm old enough now and have lived a good life that I'm not afraid of much.

LOL - I'm sure you and I are now on a watchlist of some sort.

[tazkcmo]

29. Me too

Nor do I have anything to lose. I've had a pretty good run and am not afraid to go to jail, die or be maimed, paralyzed or other wise rendered inoperable or immobile. In other words, I'm outta fucks to give.

[msanthrope]

24. James O'Keefe. That is all. nt

[Justice]

26. Russia didn't hack GOP and RNC because so much better at security. Right.....

[BumRushDaShow]

27. Anyone remember this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/us/politics/26crashers.html

Caused a major media melt-down against the Obama administration.

[WhiteTara]

32. Snuck did bother me too.

I'm a grammar cop at heart!

I had someone tell me I was "moronish" the other day...I had to correct him and explain the word was moronic. He was incensed.

[oberliner]

33. Also missing an apostrophe

Should be "lawmaker's wife" - shouldn't it?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

37. The new software pulls those out.

It also removes quotation marks from text in LBN. I can't embed links in LBN either, but I see that "DonViejo" can do it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. K&R

[orangecrush]

35. ...

[bdamomma]

39. I wonder who

she is they are trying to find her. She must heard a lot.